So it's the Philly Phanatic. Not a monster that looks like the Phanatic, but the actual man-in-a-suit mascot.

Didn't we get rid of a lot of these kinds of "turn a real-life-object into an SCP" joke SCPs during the Mass Edit? At least the few that remain (Santa, Kool-Aid Man, double-down sandwich, etc.) are treated in such a way that it's either not glaringly obvious what they are or are treated MUCH more tongue-in-cheek than this.

You what?! It's not the fact that it's a "real-life" object that's been turned into an SCP that you should care about, although I will admit thatif it's too obvious it loses some of its humour. It's whether it's funny or not. I feel that this is funny, and I'm going to, correspondingly, upvote.

What makes this funny isn't that we turned a real life object into an SCP, but that it's implied that the SCP Foundation collected a sports mascot because they thought it was an SCP. Subtle difference.

SCP-2008-J's diet is unknown, however a rectal probe of the specimen that was conducted under sedation indicated the presence of a whole, undigested human from the life form's body cavity. It is not known how SCP-2008-J could have consumed the human given the structure of the life form's mouth.

Agents ████ and ████████ collected SCP-2008-J from its habitat during a sporting contest on October 29, 20██.

They snagged him during the World Series? Wait, correction: they snagged him during the rain-delayed Series-clinching Game 5 that the Phillies won two days after it started. That's… a lot of amnesiacs….

"Addendum. Since an abridged version of this document was distributed among Foundation field agents, reports have been coming in describing a large number of encounters with specimens exhibiting virtually identical behavioural patterns as SCP-2008-J yet of greatly different physical appearance. Sightings have occurred primarily but not exclusively on the continent of North America. One hundred percent of the [REDACTED] life forms already contained by the Foundation have been found to have consumed whole human beings. A dedicated task force has been formed to [DATA EXPUNGED]-class end-of-world scenario."